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“Don’t worry about it.” Citalopram’s steady voice came from the side, “They’re not all dead. There are still a few survivors.”
Compared to her usual tone, Citalopram raised her pitch a little higher.
Citalopram staggered, trotting over from the vicinity of the collapsed building in her main body.
Since the physical attributes of Half-dead Enchantress could not be improved through exercise, Citalopram only had five Agility attributes. Moreover, Undead had no Constitution attributes, making Citalopram the lowest attribute among the players.
Suuankou had the expression of those witnessing a ghost, “Sister Wen Xue, where did you come from?”
“—I was on the second floor! I saw your runes floating up, which scared me to death!”
Citalopram yelled, “Didn’t you notice it is one player shot on the first floor?!”
“Hey… what?!” Suuankou was also startled, “I thought you weren’t here!”
“—I’m on the second floor!” Citalopram reprimanded loudly, “Next time when you’re about to blast a place, remember to check if your teammates are within the range of the explosion, okay? Although this version has no friendly fire, the environmental damage is still effective against us!”
As a matter of fact, it was not easy for her to escape.
Roughly speaking, it was in the vicinity of the spot where Jiu Er breached the wall.
That was pretty much the area where Jiu Er and Lin Yiyi made their escape.
Suppose someone got close to that spot, planning to ambush the players when they escaped. Citalopram could have her spirit instantly return to her physical body and then release it again. With that, the players would turn the tables on the enemies trying to surround them.
In the end, what Citalopram never expected was that she wasn’t surprised by the enemy’s encirclement but rather startled by her teammates’ bombardment.
Thankfully, Citalopram made precautions that she would face resistance at the exit, so she placed her main body a little further away.
If she had followed her habit of placing her main body against the outer wall to achieve the maximum range of movement, then by the time she returned to her main body, she would likely have been buried by the collapsed wall.
Even though she was still a fair distance from the building, the dust and wood chips that fell on her made her look somewhat “worn” — Miss Ghost seemed to have a more vintage feel.
“The people inside are not completely dead yet.”
Although the face of the Half-dead Enchantress was usually pale, coupled with the frightened expression on Citalopram’s face, it made her look more like a living person.
She didn’t have time to reprimand Suuankou further.
If she had more time, she would not stop lecturing Suuankou. However, she had no time for that.
“Most of those on the second floor were killed by the collapsing third floor…”
There were no survivors among those captives she subdued.
Citalopram couldn’t help but complain in her heart with resentment.
Before she finished speaking, Suuankou guessed what she was going to say, “But there are still some people who haven’t come down from the third floor, right?”
“Yeah.” Citalopram nodded.
Lin Yiyi said bluntly, “This is because you didn’t finish the job properly. Hurry up and go finish them off.”
“No big deal.” Suuankou was brimming with confidence, “I only used a fifth of my mana. I still have mana left.”
“Remember to leave some of them alive!” Jiu Er shouted.
Jiu Er felt aggrieved. She blocked the gunfire in front of Sister Hyphen to keep some of the enemies alive. However, her effort amounted to nothing.
Otherwise, she would have rushed in and unleashed a spinning attack that could have taken everyone down.
“Don’t panic. I acted hastily just now because I was startled earlier… so I accidentally went a little overboard.” Suuankou said in a deep voice, “When I went for resupply earlier, someone tried to ambush me.”
As Suuankou spoke, he squatted down again and pressed his left hand with the fingerless glove on the ground.
Upon hearing this, Lin Yiyi was taken aback momentarily and asked with a mix of seriousness and concern, “What happened? Did someone attack you?”
“It’s fine for the time being. I’ll tell you in detail when we go back. It’s a little complicated.” Suuankou briefly replied, taking a thin strand of hair from his pocket and handing it to his sister. “Take a look at this.”
“[Elderly Youth’s Hair]?” Lin Yiyi read, “What is this? The hair of a young but old man?”
“It’s a residual curse vessel from a ritual. The curse had almost taken my life.” Suuankou whispered, “Fortunately, the Saint didn’t go far… he saved me.
“This should be regarded as a follow-up content to the Gemini Nightmare. The one who tried to curse me was ‘Ingrid’. Let me quickly deal with the opponent now and then ask Old Goose what’s happening.”
He took a slow breath, and his pupils became bright again.
Suuankou gave the impression of taking a deep breath with a cigarette in his mouth. As he inhaled, his pupils blazed with bright, lava-like brilliance.
Then, he exhaled slowly.
A violent sulfur scent poured out from his mouth and nose.
In the building that had already collapsed, the flames lit up again.
“Don’t kill all of them! Keep some of them alive!” Lin Yiyi quickly reminded again.
“Yeah!” Suuankou replied confidently, “This time, there will be no problem—”
Suuankou raised his hand slowly, seemingly pulling something intangible from the ground.
As Suuankou aimed his palm at the building, a magic circle suddenly lit up.
“—The element of explosion!”
He extracted the element, raising his voice as he chanted, “With earth as bone, with fire as blood, with hatred as the sword—
“[Scar Echo]!”
That was the Chant Spell of the Destruction Magic and the first skill Suuankou used.
The spell called [Scar Echo] targeted a person’s body, and it was a spell that struck the target based on the remaining amount of health.
It could inflict half the damage of a previously caused specific type of injury.
In other words, at least the opponent’s health must be lower than one-third to be killed. And that was under the premise that the damage received by the opponent was of the same type.
The spell mechanism was like the Reaper’s Scythe [1].
The spell was quite meaningless for the typical Destruction Wizards who emphasized maximizing damage.
However, when it was activated with elements like “explosion,” “burning,” or “shattering” as the foundation, it could actually “slay” inorganic objects.
In other words, the spell targeted “buildings” as units, and the already damaged structures were destroyed again through the behavior revealed by the element — once more.
A platinum-colored beam of light was seen shooting out from the magical circle, quietly landing in the rubble of the building.
The next moment, the sounds of explosion, collapse, and shattering rang again.
That already damaged building exploded from within once again.
The spell did not damage those who fell from the third floor and struggled to get out of the collapsed building.
That was because they had not been “bombed” previously.
However, the building was attacked, sending out even more fragments.
Walls and furniture that had not been previously blasted suddenly shattered and exploded without warning. The splintering fragments embedded themselves deeply into their bodies, severely injuring them in an unexpected way.
Just like the Transcender had to unleash the curse vessel to activate the curse mark to use Transcended abilities above Silver Rank. Similarly, Fallen had to transform their body to activate their abilities too. Otherwise, besides having higher physical attributes, they were not much different from the Bronze Rank Transcenders.
This was also why the collapsed second floor crushed those people to death.
“Okay, sister, it’s done!” Suuankou breathed a sigh of relief and said proudly, “With that, except for those in combat mode, the rest should be on the verge of death. Even those in combat mode must be seriously injured by now if they tried to struggle out of the heavy building filled with sharp fragments.”
“Let’s leave the next part to our Batman.”
Suuankou respectfully stepped aside and gestured to his sister, inviting her to proceed.
“Alright, I shall punish you after coming back.” Lin Yiyi said, raising her stick and drawing a symbolic circle around Suuankou as a warning. “You better not step out of this circle. When I get back, I’m going to beat you, but I won’t kill you.”
Suuankou suddenly panicked, “Why!? I held back this time!”
“You almost buried me in there, and you’re asking why?”
“Wasn’t it just almost, sis?”
“That’s why I won’t actually beat you to death.”
Suuankou groaned, “I’ve seen it all. You said the same thing when you hit someone’s head with an iron rod!”
But before he knew it, his sister had already charged out with her iron rod.
Annan, who was still nestled in the chair and spectated the players intently, finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked away.
“What a close call. No harm is done.” Annan sighed.
It’s nerve-wracking.
Annan wasn’t talking about the players having a close call; he mainly meant that the enemies were lucky to escape unscathed.”
It was not easy for the enemies to survive through the ordeal.
Annan was worried that the enemies would be put to death by the players, being eradicated out of an accident.
With Sister Hyphen intervening, we should be getting new intel soon.
“Alright, it’s time for dinner.” Annan grunted and jumped out of his chair.
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After Annan finished his dinner, the new information should be delivered to him.